A New Friend on a Botched Commute

Yesterday on the Bart to work, our train came to a screeching halt just outside of the Daly City Bart station and the power turned off. I was listening to my iPod like I normally do reading my book so it did not phase me at first. Then the train operator came over the PA system announcing that there was a metal obstruction on the track and the operator could not stop in time to avoid it. 15 minutes go by, I think about the last shuttle that picks up for its last round in half an hour...hopefully this will all be cleared up. I call my mom, catch up, make sure my dad got his Father's Day card, blah blah blah, chat chat chat, 20 minutes go by. Ok, I must call work now.

This was one of the trains heading to SFO airport so people who had to catch flights were starting to panic as they were about to miss their flights. People started getting up and heading towards the front of the train. The girl sitting behind me looked just as puzzled as me. We followed everyone else and evacuated the train as well climbing down make-shift stairs down to the tracks across them and out to the Daly City Bart platform not too far off, thank goodness. Emergency procedures are posted in every car and I remember over the many times riding the Bart reading it while I was bored rolling along, but you never think you are going to actually use these emergency facts and instructions. Well, here we go! The girl behind me and I started chatting sharing in this experience feeling like we were in some really bad "B" movie - ha! Well, it could be "Speed" - where was Keanu to save the day? Ha!

We sat on the platform with everyone else wondering what the hell we were going to do now and so we got to talking. She's 22 and I'm...well, older. She wanted to know what I did, where did I go to school, how did I get to my place in life right now so I told her like it was a story, open-book, unfolding. She was amazed at my story starting from college to grad school to moving up to the Bay Area from Hacienda Heights to getting my first real job to getting my first apartment by myself. To getting another job where I could get on-the-job training, traveled, got another job where I was working from home and am now contracting about to make a big move with my life, a life with my love that is unbelievable, so storybook.

Amy said that, "You Rock!! In case you didn't know or nobody told you - YOU ROCK!!!" :) Thank you!!! Smiles. I guess it is pretty amazing, I can hardly believe it all myself, but I made it all happen, I took the steps necessary, hoped for the best, fell flat on my face at times, but got back up stronger when I was ready for something else. Well, it is definitely not over, and there is a whole lot in front me. I'm SO excited - watch me FLY!!!~*

P.S. By the way, I did make it to work, an hour and a half late via taxi from yet another Bart station. What a morning start! ;)